Brains and Eggs: Sunday Funnies

We put together a cartoon collection about Elon Musk's 'awkward gesture': https://t.co/e5Us1QKaNz

This one is by Oliver Ploux.#ElonMusk #nazisalute pic.twitter.com/u8KrtiIxZ6
— Cartoon Movement (@cartoonmovement) January 22, 2025

The future of the next generation is being stolen due to the misconception of endless growth on our finite planet. The Earth is a closed system for materials. "We are stealing the future, selling it in the present, and calling it GDP" - Paul Hawkenhttps://t.co/DLIGn4uJnd
— Peter Dynes (@PGDynes) January 12, 2024

Medicare for All#SocialistSunday pic.twitter.com/AbBHq010MV
— screamschildrenremoved (@PDiddie) April 13, 2025

This cartoon was drawn in 2009. pic.twitter.com/nwDtBVjU2M
— Friendly Neighborhood Comrade (@SpiritofLenin) July 27, 2024

most of what we fight over is made up... pic.twitter.com/T6UubOBNJ6
— వంశీ చెల్లెపాటి (@Vamshi_C13) November 29, 2025

The Bullock Museum completed a five-year project in December to make all 16,000 years of Texas history encapsulated within its walls available to visitors in both English and Spanish.https://t.co/hGF86uGJx9
— KUT Austin (@KUT) February 8, 2024

If you zoom in on this 1873 map of Houston, you'll see all sorts of interesting stuff, including the confluence of Buffalo Bayou and White Oak Bayou, which, because it formed a natural turning basin for boats to turn around, was the primary reason the Allen Brothers, John Kirby… pic.twitter.com/yEZ8x47u7r
— Traces of Texas (@TracesofTexas) February 6, 2025

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

Eschaton

Speaking of Good Republicans - Booker: "There are really good people in the Senate on both sides of the aisle, and I have these private conversations with my colleagues about what's wr...
Common Dreams

House Dem Leaders Waver on Iran Vote As Trump Prepares to Escalate - On Tuesday, Punchbowl News reported that House Democratic leaders are not planning to hold a vote on a war powers resolution for Iran this week—despite r...
Courthouse News

EU court takes aim at secretive pesticide deliberations - Officials can’t hide how countries vote on chemical usage without concrete evidence that turning over such documents is likely to cause harm.
Futurism

OpenAI Fumbled Its $1 Billion Deal With Disney - Awkward. The post OpenAI Fumbled Its $1 Billion Deal With Disney appeared first on Futurism.
SCOTUSblog

Justices dubious about “harsh” rules for omissions by bankrupt debtors - Yesterday’s argument in Keathley v. Buddy Ayers Construction displayed a bench almost uniformly skeptical of a lower court’s absolute standard for respon...
Mediaite

‘Clown’ PAC: Conservative Radio Star Nukes CPAC From Orbit Over Schlapp and Bannon - Conservative radio star Erick Erickson submitted that "the 'C' in CPAC is now best represented by the world 'clown'" on X Wednesday. The post ‘Clown’ PAC...
Mediagazer

SCOTUS rules unanimously that Cox could not be held liable for the piracy of thousands of songs online, after music labels sued the internet provider in 2018 (Ann E. Marimow/New York Times) - Ann E. Marimow / New York Times: *SCOTUS rules unanimously that Cox could not be held liable for the piracy of thousands of songs online, after music lab...
The Week

Minnesota sues for evidence in ICE killings - The state is attempting to obtain evidence from three shootings
Axios

Iran rejects Trump's 15-point plan to end war: State TV - Iran has informed the U.S. through intermediaries that it rejects the Trump administration's 15-point proposal for negotiations, Iran's English-language ...
Texas Observer

Mythbusting Texas’ Reactionary Past - The function of foundational myths is to fence off the present from ideas, counter-histories, and traditions from below that could cut through the barbed...
Salon.com

How I cook without relying on dairy - A shift in my health changed how I cook — and led me to deeper flavor, new habits and a different kind of comfort
memeorandum

In Trump's war messaging, veterans see something new — and disturbing (Drew Harwell/Washington Post) - Drew Harwell / Washington Post: *In Trump's war messaging, veterans see something new — and disturbing* … When the retired U.S. Army colonel Joe Buccino ...
Raw Story

Mockery as ex-Trump Cabinet member stuck in 3-hour TSA line: 'Warms my heart' - As Transportation Security Administration lines extend to hours at major U.S. airports across the country amid a wave of walkouts and resignations from t...
CultureMap Houston

2 Texas beaches near Houston swim among 10 best in U.S. for 2026 - The Lone Star State has already preheated for the summer, and two coastal shores on Galveston Island have emerged atop a new list of the best beach destina...
The Verge

Ring finally brings 4K video to its battery-powered doorbell camera - Ring has announced its first battery-powered 2K and 4K doorbell cameras. The Ring Battery Video Doorbell Pro 2nd Gen ($249.99) offers 4K video resolution a...
NORML

Feds Provides Details on Plan to Integrate Hemp-Derived Products into Medicare Services - [image: a stethoscope and marijuana leaf representing medical cannabis][image: a stethoscope and marijuana leaf representing medical cannabis]“The integr...
Daily Howler

IMPRECATIONS: DefSec's warrior pastor speaks! - *WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25, 2026* *It has now come to this: * We'd planned to speak today about the recent murder of Stephanie Minter, age 41, in Fairfax Count...
San Antonio Report

Voter Guide: What to know about the May 2 election for school board races - Education races have top billing on the May 2 uniform election ballot for voters in Bexar County-area school districts and Alamo Colleges. -----------------...
naked capitalism

Easing Capital, Reviving Risk: The Quiet Return of Too Big to Fail - Less capital, more risk. The latest move on big-bank rules suggests that too big to fail was never solved, only deferred.
The Hill

Trump extends the work of FEMA reform council - President Trump late Tuesday extended the work of a council that is supposed to recommend changes at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), an age...
Undernews

Food problems - Trader Joe's Recall Expands: 12 Million Pounds of Frozen Foods Pulled From Shelves in 43 States *A public health alert has been issued for ground beef sold...
Houston Public Media

Texas will require proof of legal immigration status to get professional licenses - Officials approved the change after hearing from speakers who argued it would hamper the state’s economy and push immigrants to work without licenses in th...
WhoWhatWhy

From Blitzkrieg to War of Attrition: What the US-Israel-Iran Conflict Reveals - [image: Mojtaba Khamenei, replaces, father , Iran, Supreme Leader] The lesson is not anti-Americanism but realism: Diversify energy sources, fortify domest...
Glasstire

A Joyful Resistance: Kristina Salinas’ “Cognizant Distance” at the San Antonio Central Library Gallery - The complexity, pride, and difficulties that make up home is displayed in Cognizant Distance by Kristina Salinas. Presented in the San Antonio Central Pu...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

US army raises upper age for recruits to 42 and scraps marijuana restrictions - Change raises age limit from 35 and removes barrier for entry for recruits who have a legal conviction for cannabis - Sign up for the Breaking...
Ian Welsh

Pro Iran War Propaganda Videos - Of all the wars I’ve covered in my writing career, this one has been the hardest in the sense that figuring out what’s true and what isn’t is difficult. Th...
Political Wire

Iran Won’t Accept U.S. Effort at Ceasefire - CNBC: “Iran will not accept a ceasefire offer from the United States, Iranian state media reported Wednesday.” “The FARS News Agency state media outlet, ci...
Mondoweiss

What it’s like to be a family caught in the crosshairs of Israel’s ‘de-Palestinization’ of Jerusalem - [image: Rubble of the Hamdia family home, demolished by Israeli military authorities in March 2026. (Photo: Qassam Muaddi/Mondoweiss)]The Hamdia family spe...
Daily Cartoonist

Wayback Whensday: The Case of the Curious Cartoonist - Last month there was reason to believe that Ripley’s Believe It or Not had ended its historic run as the panel slipped into reprinting cartoons from the fe...
Novara Media

Cuba Aid Flotilla Arrives in Havana - After five days at sea, the first ships from the Nuestra América convoy arrived in Havana, Cuba, on Tuesday and Wednesday. Sailing from Mexico bearing much...
El Paso Matters

Honor El Paso women in the arts, celebrate farm worker legacy at MACC - Explore ChangeMakers 2026 and ¡Viva La Causa!, plus more culture and community events happening across El Paso this week. The post Honor El Paso women i...
Democracy Now!

"People Have the Power": Patti Smith, Bruce Springsteen, Michael Stipe at Democracy Now! Celebration - *Democracy Now!* celebrated its 30th anniversary Monday at the historic Riverside Church in New York. The night ended with Patti Smith performing her anthe...
Vox

What baseball’s “robot umpires” tell us about the future of work - For a sport that’s more than 150 years old, the opening of the 2026 Major League Baseball season is set to feature an unusual number of firsts. The officia...
Techdirt.

Brendan Carr Tries To ‘Ban’ All Foreign Routers In Lazy, Legally Dubious Shakedown - Taking a break from attacking the First Amendment, FCC boss Brendan Carr this week engaged in a strange bit of performance art: his FCC announced that they...
NPR's Health Shots

Yep, a mom's COVID shot during pregnancy protects her baby, a large study finds - A 3-year study published in *Pediatrics* examined newborns in Norway. It found a clear benefit for the baby when mom gets a COVID vaccination during pregna...
Consortium News

Craig Murray: The London Ambulance Attack - Iran has a zero record of attacking healthcare facilities, even in Israel. And there are multiple red flags about linking the recently-emerged terrorist gr...
OpEd News

Paris, Israel apartheid week and more - Zionism is repeating what was done to Palestine in Lebanon targeting hospitals, schools, ambulances, and other civilian structures and ethnically cleansing...
The Progressive Wing

3/25 News Roundup & Open Thread - More news, videos, tweets, etc. in the comments.
Al Jazeera English

Video: Trump’s Board of Peace pushes Gaza disarmament plan at UN - An envoy from President Trump's Board of Peace says a plan is in place to disarm groups in Gaza.
ArcaMax

For Times That Try Our Souls: Resistance - "Fight for our rights, fight for your rights," is probably the most overused phrase in American politics. In this desperate moment when American democracy ...
Deadline Politics

‘Morning Joe’ Co-Hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski Renew Deal To Stay At MS NOW - Morning Joe co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski have renewed their contracts and will stay at MS NOW until after the 2028 election, through 2029. ...
Election Law Blog

NY: “Supreme Court declines to hear challenge to New York’s even-year election law” - Spectrum News: The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear a challenge to a new state law that will move most local elections to even-numbered years to align...
Mother Jones

Trump Officials Claim They Gutted This $400 Billion Climate Program. They Didn’t. - This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In January, the Trump administration announc...
slacktivist

Texts of terror? Terrific! - A star-studded line up of MAGA celebrities is planning to read the entire Bible, out loud, in Washington DC next month. I don't think they realize what tha...
Earth 911

Guest Idea: The Hidden Environmental Cost of Lost Golf Balls - Every year, American golfers lose an estimated 300 million golf balls, according to research by... The post Guest Idea: The Hidden Environmental Cost of ...
Dorf on Law

What's Wrong With The Trump Administration's Lawsuit Against Harvard - Last week, the Department of Justice filed suit against Harvard University, alleging that Harvard is violating Title VI by failing adequately to respond ...
Rallblog

V-I (in his Imagination) Day | DeProgram with Ted Rall and John Kiriakou - LIVE 9:00 am Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: Political cartoonist Ted Rall and CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou deprogram you from mainstream media every...
The Smirking Chimp

MAGA in Panic Mode As Insiders Fear ‘Brutal’ Midterms Following Florida Trouncing -
Countercurrents

Gaza: Two Palestinians Killed, Several Injured in Israeli Attacks Despite Ceasefire - Gaza (QNN)- At least two Palestinians were killed and several others injured in Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, as Israel continues to ...
The Root

Georgia Woman Charged With Murder For Taking Abortion Pills Released on $1 Bond - In a shocking turn of events, a Republican judge and DA both agreed a woman's arrest after taking abortion pills in Georgia was "problematic." Read more...
Skeptophilia

Scooting past the reviewers - If there's one piece of advice I have for anyone trying to stay informed, it is: check your sources. Unfortunately, these days, that takes more than just a...
Off The Kuff

Republicans had trouble with precinct voting, too - I know, I know, I’m shocked too. At least 12,674 Dallas County voters trying to cast ballots in both party primaries showed up at the wrong polling locatio...
Slate

Our Precarious Careers Are Forcing a Terrible Spending Habit on Us. It Doesn’t Have to Be This Way. - We're so sick of renting.
Scheerpost.com

‘We Won’t Die for Israel’: Military Members Seek a Way Out as U.S. War Expands - In recent interviews on Clearing the FOG, Margaret Flowers highlights a sharp rise in military personnel seeking conscientious objector status, speaking wi...
Infidel753

A few news and commentary updates - The media have been in something of a tizzy over Trump's recent bizarre claim that he's negotiating with some important figure in the Iranian theocracy, w...
ProPublica

New Portland Trail Blazers Owner Played Key Role at Company Oregon Accused of Predatory Lending - The post New Portland Trail Blazers Owner Played Key Role at Company Oregon Accused of Predatory Lending appeared first on ProPublica.
Grist

The frantic, high-tech fight to stop climate-fueled dengue fever - Scientists in Brazil and Peru may have found a way to beat mosquitoes at their own game. The U.S. may soon need to do the same.
Crooked Media

Trump Goes from Obliteration to Negotiation on Iran - The post Trump Goes from Obliteration to Negotiation on Iran appeared first on Crooked Media.
The Socialist

Stephen Feinberg Net Worth 2026: The $2.5 Billion Pentagon Chief - Table of Contents Cerberus Capital Management: The Foundation of a $2.5 Billion Fortune Luxury Real Estate: Manhattan and Greenwich Holdings Strategic Stoc...
Counterpunch

The NYT Times Continues to Normalize Trump - “This is in a way the anger presidency. Anger defines Mr. Trump’s decade on the political stage. Mr. Trump is not the first president with a temper. E...
jobsanger

The United States Is No Longer The Leader Of The Free World -
The AltWorld

Lavrov Warned About Trump 2.0’s Plans For Global Dominance - Russia’s threat perception of the US is growing as a result of stalled peace talks, increasing pressure […] The post Lavrov Warned About Trump 2.0’s Plan...
Informed Comment

The Consequences of the U.S.-Israel Attack on Iran - Neither military leaders nor Congress were able to comprehend, or warn Trump, of the dire possibilities that can result from bombing Iran
World Socialist Web Site

Workers Struggles: The Americas - Staff at 42 care facilities in Nova Scotia have now authorized strike action by margins averaging 95 percent.
Brad Blog

'Holding Out Hope' for Corrupt SCOTUS to Do The Right Thing Regarding Late-Arriving Mail Ballots: 'BradCast' 3/24/2026 - On today's BradCast, we turn briefly away from the folly and fallout of Trump's war on Iran to focus again on the folly and fallout of Trump's war on democ...
Alternet

MAGA in panic mode as insiders fear 'brutal' midterms following Florida trouncing - The MAGA world was deep into panic mode as soon as the official results of a Florida special elections landed. On Tuesday, Democrat candidate Emily Grego...
The Daily Poster

The Pentagon’s AI Gatekeeper Holds Stock In Anthropic’s Rival - As the Pentagon moves to blacklist Anthropic for pushing AI safeguards, the official leading the charge holds millions in a competing firm.
Claytoonz

ICE Butts In - Read the blog at my Substack. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donate through PayPal to clayjonz@gmail.com, Ven...
Popular Resistance

US Sanctions On Venezuela Continue: Corporate Beneficiaries And A Targeted Society - In the wake of Washington’s January 3 military attack and then problematic détente with Caracas, corporate media suggest a meaningful shift in Venezuela ...
Ballot Access News

Florida Special Legislative Elections - On March 24, Florida held three special legislative elections. In the State Senate 14th district, the vote is: Democratic 50.2%; Republican 49.8%. That res...
Workers World

No kings — no imperialism — no capitalism - [image: No kings — no imperialism — no capitalism] Thousands of anti-Trump protests are taking place all over the U.S. on March 28 under the banner of “No ...
The Texas Signal

Cressandra Thibodeaux’s Life Of Activism Endures Beyond 14 Pews - Cressandra Thibodeaux will be showcasing her photos of the United Houma Nation, perhaps "America's first climate change refugees," in an exhibition at the ...
Antiwar.com

The Iran War and the Collapse of Western Moral Credibility - There is something revealing about the way Western governments talk about war when Iran is involved. The language changes almost instantly. Questions of le...
Portside

Then They Came for the Immigrant Truckers - Then They Came for the Immigrant Truckers Judy Tue, 03/24/2026 - 19:42
San Antonio Current

Pete Hegseth’s pastor wants James Talarico to die - [image: James Talarico speaks at the Powered by People Democratic Political Rally last summer.] The pastor of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s home church...
The Greanville Post

Alastair Crooke : Trump Loses Control of the War - JUDGE NAP—Trump appears to be losing control over the conflict, with escalating military deployments (e.g., 82nd Airborne, Marine Expeditionary Units) but ...
Alas, a Blog

Parents’ Rights - The right-wing (plus some alleged liberals cough Singal cough) assault on trans kids is genuinely horrifying. Literally hundreds of anti-trans bills – most...
The NM Political Report

New Mexico jury finds Meta guilty of putting profits over child safety, ordering $375 million fine - [image: Raul Torrez Courtesy Photo] After hearing more than seven weeks of evidence, a Santa Fe jury took less than two days to decide that Meta, the pare...
Black Agenda Report

Combating the Lies and Propaganda that Fuel the USA-Israel War on Iran - Combating the Lies and Propaganda that Fuel the USA-Israel War on Iran bareditors Wed, 03/25/2026 - 02:44 Solomon Comissiong Margaret Kimberley, BAR Execut...
Church and State

Have Trump‘s wars put the rest of the Jeffrey Epstein files on ice? No! - Putin must really have some information which Trump does not want released. Turns out that Epstein had very close relations with Russia.
Independent Political Report

Prineville Mayor Leaves GOP to Join Libertarian Party - Jason Beebe, the mayor of Prineville, Oregon, has left the Republican Party and registered with the Libertarian Party, saying he believes Republicans hav...
Wolf Street

$5+ Diesel Could Unleash Inflationary Mindset the Fed Better Not “Look Through.” Inflation Was already Hot before Iran War - When this inflationary mindset takes off, inflation becomes like a runaway train.
Progressive.org

Americans Are United Against Trump’s War - Americans agree that we want quality and affordable health care, housing, child care, and education. The Trump Administration is ignoring all of this to co...
LareDOS

April 1 at Casa Ortiz: Concierto en El Jardin – Bolero Jazz Bajo La Luna Llena and art exhibit of Bethany House residents - The Laredo Cultural District’s (LCD) upcoming Concierto en El Jardin – Bolero Jazz Bajo La Luna Llena and the art exhibit of Bethany House residents is set...
First Draft

The Liar Song Dozen 2.0 - Songs of deceit and mendacity.
Texas Standard

How Texas could soon have more AI data centers than anywhere else in the world - Pacifico Energy and other energy companies are rushing to build private power plants across the Lone Star State.
Discourse

Discourse Pod #19: Iran Updates, ICE at the Airport, the State of Magazine Covers, and Chappell Roan vs. Jude Law's Daughter - Official War Correspondent Cros is back to tell us what to think about the war.
Liberation News

47 years of hybrid war against Iran - The illegal war against Iran launched by the United States at the end of February is an escalation in a decades-long campaign of hybrid war against Iranian...
Capital & Main

It’s Getting Tougher to Teach LGBTQ History, Even Where It’s Required by Law - California law requires public schools to teach about the contributions of LGBTQ people. Teachers say that’s only getting harder under Trump. The post It...
Bonddad

The bond market sends an unprecedented message - * - by New Deal democrat* Something not just unusual, but unprecedented has happened in the bond market this year. Normally, when an inverted yield ...
Angry Bear

Construction spending in January declined, manufacturing construction tanked; but the AI data center Boom continued - – by New Deal democrat This morning the construction spending report for January was released (note that this is still about 3 weeks later than usual, s...
Duck of Minerva

6+1 Questions about Exit from International Organizations - What is the name of the book and what are its coordinates? The book is Exit from International Organizations: Costly Negotiation for Institutional Change. ...
Rewire

Contraception Services Dropped After ‘Defunding’ Provision Hit Clinics - Planned Parenthood closed 20 clinics in the months since the July 2025 budget reconciliation bill cut off Medicaid funding to some reproductive health-ca...
The Conversation

Is it ‘Ih-ran’ or ‘E-ron’? Inside the politics of pronunciation - Both President Trump and Vice President Vance pronounce Iran as ‘Ih-RAN,’ not ‘Ih-RON.’ A linguist says that how the country’s name is pronounced may be a ...
Space City Weather

Temperatures march upward in Houston the next couple of days - In brief: A lot of rinse and repeat for Houston the rest of this week, with temperatures hotter today and tomorrow and then perhaps the hottest of the year...
High Country News

Utah’s new study aims to kill ‘as many cougars as possible’ - Critics say the state's attempt to boost ungulate populations lacks scientific grounding and transparency. The post Utah’s new study aims to kill ‘as ma...
Idavox

A letter to Vermont from your neighbor – from an anonymous immigrant - Don’t just be an ally. Be an effective one. Dear Vermont, With everything going on... The post A letter to Vermont from your neighbor – from an anonymous...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'Ohio GOP's drag ban cosponsor was accused of sexual conduct with a minor' & other Mon/Tue news briefs - Ohio state rep Rodney Creech *Ohio GOP's drag ban cosponsor was accused of sexual misconduct with minor relative:* * (State Rep. Rodney) Creech was accus...
Socialist Alternative

How Cincinnati Is Building an Anti-ICE, Strike-Ready Fightback - Donald Trump’s war and deportation machine has kicked into overdrive, tearing apart communities at home while expanding violence abroad. But across the cou...
See You In 2020

The theft of the world we knew, the timeline of our social decline, & Gen Z’s search for salvation - Something liberals have done in response to Gen Z’s tragedies is pathologize the reactions from the victims, especially the male victims. This is how ou...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Inescapable ICE: The Dawning of an Overt Police State - The President has a fascist secret police. They'll be everywhere soon if we don't stop them
Edinburg Politics

Maricela “Mari” De León, MPA, CPM, with more than 20 years experience in the Texas Legislature, higher education, and economic development, selected Executive Director, Rio Grande Valley LEAD (Linking Economic and Academic Development) - Maricela “Mari” De León, MPA, CPM, whose extensive public service credentials also include more than 20 years of professional experience in the Texas Legis...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Silence Has a Sound: Texas' SB 37, the End of Shared Governance, and the Structured Diminishment of Voice, by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. - *Silence Has a Sound: Texas' SB 37, the End of Shared Governance, and the Structured Diminishment of Voice* *by* *Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D.* *March 23, ...
Unlimited Hangout

Technate, Ohio: How Leslie Wexner and Jeffrey Epstein Built The Silicon Heartland - Ohio has become the new destination for Big Tech data centers and AI infrastructure. The state owes much of its rapid transformation into the so-called "...
Project Censored

Evangelicalism, Conspiracy & the First Amendment - First up on the show, Christian Nationalism, Evangelicalism - some might say that its whats destroying our nation, but are we actually ready to sit with ...
Krebs on Security

‘CanisterWorm’ Springs Wiper Attack Targeting Iran - A financially motivated data theft and extortion group is attempting to inject itself into the Iran war, unleashing a worm that spreads through poorly secu...
Sludge

DOGE Operative Behind Nuclear Safety Rollbacks Sat on Industry-Backed VC Board - A key architect of Trump’s nuclear safety rollbacks simultaneously served on the board of a venture firm backed by nuclear industry investors.
Dissent Magazine

Know Your Enemy: From Neocon to Never-Trump - Matt and Sam talk to Bill Kristol about his journey from neoconservative thought leader to anti-Trump liberal.
The Grayzone

Paul Mason instigated GCHQ targeting of The Grayzone’s Kit Klarenberg, leaks reveal - Leaked material reviewed by The Grayzone reveals failed ‘journalist’ Paul Mason conspired with GCHQ to monitor and attack this journalist and other criti...
The Rag Blog

MICHAEL MEEROPOL / FOREIGN POLICY / Trump’s War of Choice - Caricature by DonkeyHotey SPECIAL TO THE RAG BLOG By Michael Meeropol / The Rag Blog / March 23, 2026 People in the media have been scrambling in an attemp...
Trivial Knot

Four reviews of musical sequels - In my family, I have a reputation for hating movies. To some extent this is humorous exaggeration, but it has been a noticeable pattern since my teenage ye...
Crooked Timber

Sunday photoblogging: Pézenas, Porte Faugères - [image: Porte Faugères]
Campaign for America's Future

El poder se construye una conversación a la vez - Ninguno de nosotros, por sí solo, puede detener la violencia ni construir un futuro mejor. Para lograrlo, nos necesitamos unos a otros. Para construir un p...
Dissident Voice

Tulsi Gabbard and Joe Kent - Frank had just finished listening to online news about how US government officials viewed the Israel-United States war of aggression launched against Ira...
Field Negro

No bottom. - *"Evil people hate the light because it reveals themselves to themselves. ... They will destroy the light, the goodness, the love in order to avoid the...
Greg Palast

Iran has won, jamming Trump’s bombs right up his Strait of Hormuz - How did the mullahs win? Even that flower child Jimmy Carter said the US must use military force to keep open this outlet for the world's flow of oil. Cart...
MintPress News

Embarrassing Pivot: US Considers Dropping Iran Oil Sanctions Amid War - Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Fox News that the move to free up 140 million barrels of oil was aimed at preventing China gaining from the situati...
Dispatches from the Underclass

Israel Invades Lebanon Again: The Greater Israel Project That Keeps Failing - Israel has expanded its war across the region, bombing Lebanon and Iran while preparing a potential ground invasion into southern Lebanon. Israeli official...
Bracing Views

Insane Headline of the Day - Gut Check for America BILL ASTORE MAR 21, 2026 Here’s the lede at NBC News this morning: ***** Trump weighing several options for U.S. troops inside Iran D...
Democracy Chronicles

War Pigs: Black Sabbath Meets the Evangelical Iran War Supporters - One day this insanity that’s been repeating itself can come to an end. Will it start with you? Will it start with me?
Lowering the Bar

FEMA Official: Teleporting to Waffle House Was an “Incredible Adventure” - "Incredible" is the operative word there.
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: WAR ARE THEY NOW? EDITION. - *Riddim.* Remember “The Surge” in Iraq? Now, with Iran, we have multiple Surges -- of bullshit! From “Regime Change” to “Imminent Threat,” the excuses fo...
The Militant

Synagogues, Jews attacked in Canada as Jew-hatred spreads - MONTREAL — Three synagogues in the Toronto area and several Jewish-owned businesses in Montreal have been attacked by Jew-haters since the beginning of Was...
Debunking Christianity

Christianity’s Role in Fueling the Nazi Holocaust - *“Atheism Was Not the Cause of the Holocaust”* My subtitle today is, in fact, the title of an essay by Hector Avalos in John Loftus’ 2010 anthology, *T...
DeSmogBlog

Breaking: UK Court Paves Way for Alleged Exxon Hacker-for-Hire’s Extradition to U.S. - An Israeli private investigator wanted by U.S. law enforcement for allegedly orchestrating an illegal “hacking-for-hire” operation on behalf of oil and g...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Six Gubernatorial Rating Changes in Favor of Democrats, but Republicans May Still Come Out Ahead - Republicans have had an edge in overall gubernatorial control since the 2010 election, and they still have a clear path to maintaining that advantage. ...
TalkLeft

Wednesday Open Thread - Our last open thread is full. Here's a new one, all topics welcome. The "war" in Iran continues. Israel is picking off Iranian leaders, one by one. Iran...
Seeing the Forest

Iran Failure Shows What The ‘Deep State’ Was FOR - Understanding things like the Strait of Hormuz and guiding policymakers on how to work with countries like Iran is what the Deep State was about. The Strai...
Ecosophia

Situationism: The Art of Détournement - It’s been a while since we last talked about Situationism, that giddy fusion of radical politics and performance art that seized the imaginations of a cert...
Environment Texas

Texas Nature & Energy Project - How Texas can build large renewable energy projects the right way The post Texas Nature & Energy Project appeared first on Environment Texas.
Progressives Chat

The Mall of Showbiz Awards Ceremonies - Sunday, March 15, 2026 is the date for the 98th Academy Awards. Ceremony will be on ABC. In 2029, Oscar moves to YouTube. I was thinking about how these...
Media Lens

‘How On Earth Do You Justify That?’ Laura Kuenssberg’s Selective Empathy - On 8 March, on the BBC politics programme, ‘Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg’, the former BBC political editor put these impassioned words to Seyed Ali Mousavi...
Two Party Opera

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WAWG Blog

Are Election Safeguards Sufficient for Our 2026/2028 General Elections? - While no system can be 100?% immune to attempts at manipulation, the combination of legal requirements, bipartisan procedural rules, and independent audi...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report February 2026 - Walmart had at least eleven more shootings related to their business, most on their property, but one nearby after a chase that began at Walmart, in Feb...
Earthworks

Earthworks Field Survey 2025 Report for Colorado - Overview In 2025, Earthworks conducted 323 surveys at 195 oil and gas facilities in Colorado with an optical gas imaging … The post Earthworks Field Sur...
Avedon's Sideshow

It was a time when strangers were welcome here - Alison McGhee posted this photo to go with an essay on Facebook* about the occupation of Minneapolis. The essay was fine, but she's no slouch as a photog...
Texas Freedom Network

Hey State Board of Education, what’s the rush? - Your February 2026 SBOE Rundown This week’s sprung-up-out-of-nowhere special State Board of Education (SBOE) meeting is over. The politicization of our c...
Second Nexus

U.S. Hockey Star Slams White House For Sharing AI-Doctored Video Of Him Insulting Canadians - There's a saying about laying down with dogs. Or, you're known by the company you keep. NHL player and Team USA member Brady Tkachuk is learning that les...
Web of Debt

Regime Change at the Fed: From Big Bank Bailouts to Local Productivity - Image by ScheerPost. On January 30, when former Federal Reserve board member Kevin Warsh was nominated by President Trump as the central bank’s next chair,...
nonsite.org

Black Studies, Cultural Politics, and the Evasion of Inequality: The Farce this Time - Best takes great pains to describe race as many things: “inheritance,” “legacy,” “lineage,” “affinity,” “subjectivity.” But he avoids the painful truth tha...
Land Destroyer

At the AI Race’s Finishing Line: A World of Abundance or Automated Dominance? - *February 12, 2026* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to advance, an important but unnoticed debate is taking place with...
Reading the Pictures

The People, United, Will Never Be Defeated: Leila Navidi’s Photograph as a Defining Image of Resistance to Trump’s ICE Regime - A spontaneous ICE encounter on a St. Paul block becomes a rare picture of practiced solidarity—and a case study in how images can answer federal power. ...
Consent Factory, Inc.

Medical Leave - I’m going to be out of commission for a while. I’ll spare you (or deny you) the gory details. The short version is, I am in pretty bad shape, and, after a ...
Screwston Antifascist Committee

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Targets Screwston Anti-Fascists For Investigation - BREAKING Our organization is being targeted by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton who, on Friday, February 6th, released a public statement calling us “dera...
Moron Majority

After Disastrous Bondi Hearing, Stetson University College of Law Issues Statement - Pam Bondi received her Juris Doctor degree from Stetson University College of Law in 1990. The Florida law school fears for its reputation after Bondi’s un...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Victories Pour In - (That Melania doc sure was a massive W if ever there was one. 11 x 17 inch medium-res color .jpg image, 1.2mb) Does having to close the Kennedy Center afte...
Green Pages News

Appetites - You cannot stop smoking although you know it is killing your lungs. You cannot stop eating although you know it is killing your heart. You cannot stop prod...
Free & Equal

How Do We Empower The Next Generation? w/ Ron Paul - Join Christina Tobin, Chair of Free and Equal Elections Foundation, as she and Former U.S. Attorney David Katz join NewsNation to discuss what President ...
The Disorder Of Things

Call for Participation: Women, Peace and Security Research Network UK - Date: Tuesday 19 May 2026 Venue: Queen Mary University of London Format: A one-day event with 20-25 participants The Women, Peace and Security (WPS) UK Res...
Dandelion Salad

Marxist Scholar Michael Parenti Dies at 92 + When you had the Crisis of Capitalism, Fascism is an Attempt at a Final Solution to the Class Struggle - Michael died Saturday, January 24, 2026. My sincere condolences and deepest sympathies to all his family, friends and readers. He will be missed by many. —...
Daily Dot

Rumors that the Starbucks unicorn frappe will return are rampant on TikTok, but is it just more 2016 nostalgia? - [image: starbucks unicorn frappe] People on social media are expressing nostalgia for Starbucks’ discontinued Unicorn Frappe—and spreading rumors about i...
Reform Austin

A Farewell from Reform Austin - After much reflection, we’ve made the difficult decision to close down Reform Austin. Since our inception, our mission has been to provide Texans with re...
Reveal

How a US Citizen Was Scanned With ICE’s Facial Recognition Tech - [image: Two federal agents are standing in the sun wearing police vests. One agent is holding a cell phone.] Jesus Gutiérrez told immigration agents he wa...
ExChristian.Net

Turn off the Light - *By BlackFreethought ~ * Once I took off the mask and removed the veneer of Christianity during this second deconstruction, the world became a more scary...
Texas Monthly

The Daily Crossword: November 18, 2025 - [image: Tuesday Crossword Illustration] The post The Daily Crossword: November 18, 2025 appeared first on Texas Monthly.
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Does Tylenol use by pregnant women cause autism, as Texas Attorney General (and McKinney resident) Ken Paxton alleges? - No. The post Does Tylenol use by pregnant women cause autism, as Texas Attorney General (and McKinney resident) Ken Paxton alleges? appeared first on D ...
American Prospect

More State (or Is It Just Trump?) Capitalism - Treasury’s Bessent says the feds will jump into pharmaceuticals and shipbuilding. California’s Newsom says the state has produced and will sell insulin at ...
Progressive Army

Acta de reunión de comisión directiva - Estimados socios buenos días: Les hacemos llegar en adjunto acta número 920 relacionada a la reunión de comisión directiva realizada el día miércoles 24 ...
Rio Grande Guardian

Smith: Border Days - Border chronicler Morgan Smith recaps a two-day trip he recently made to Mexico, including stops in Anapra, Juárez, and Palomas. The post Smith: Border D...
GreenSource DFW

Commercial clients lining up for quiet, all-electric landscaping service - *The Greener Good crew manicuring the grounds at Southlake’s Delta Hotel by Marriott in July. Photo courtesy of the Greener Good.* Aug. 8, 2025 At least...
Nina Illingworth

Journal: Courage, Cowardice, and Collaboration - Rashid Khalidi's recent stand against Columbia University's collaboration with Trump's fascist cultural agenda is important; more US educators should joi...
Stinque

Tom Lehrer, 1928-2025 - The post Tom Lehrer, 1928-2025 appeared first on Stinque.
Bud Kennedy

Joe Rogan tells Texas Democrat James Talarico, ‘You need to run.’ Does he? | Opinion - If Texas Democrats need young talent, James Talarico is a start. The 36-year-old Texas House lawmaker from Round Rock is not far removed from his days as J...
ROAR Magazine

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Speak Freely (ACLU)

Live Coverage: Final SCOTUS Decision Day -
Eater Houston

The Best Hidden Gem Restaurants in Houston - [image: A person serves a matcha martini at Bar Doko.] Let Eater point you to some of the most underrated and under-the-radar restaurants in Houston. | Mi...
Ring of Fire

Trump Threatens Media Outlet Over Don Jr’s Comparison To Hunter Biden - Donald Trump Jr. has been crisscrossing the planet using his dad’s name, his name, of course, to get all of these business deals and put money in his poc...
Southeast Texas Record

Case activity for Maa Wwarrs -Maa Vintage Park, LLC vs Keidre Mccall on May 14 - The Harris County Civil Court reported the following activities in the suit brought by Jack Garland Jr. and Maa Wwarrs -Maa Vintage Park, LLC against All...
Save Buffalo Bayou

Cutting Forest for Stormwater Basins - Is that A Good Idea? The Value of Lost Ecosystem Services April 29, 2025 Digging out the land to create basins to hold stormwater and prevent flooding is a...
Texans For Public Justice

New Report & Tool to Track Flaring - The “Texas Flaring Project” released a website and a report today analyzing how the state’s oil and gas industry wastes valuable natural gas by flaring a...
Political Garbage Chute

Why Did The Secretary of Defense Text Me Dick Pics and Nuclear Launch Codes? - “I’m Prince of War now, got it? I’ll do what I want. Text what and who I want.” Well, that was a new one. I have to say in all my years covering politics...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

Degrowth’s unhelpful contribution to global environmental challenges: A rejoinder to a critique of growth contingency - I write in response to the recent critique by Terry Leahy of my article ‘Beyond green growth, degrowth, post-growth and growth agnosticism’ in JAPE (94, ...
Polygraph (global fact-check)

Vatican: Francis stable, out of ‘imminent danger’ of death - The Vatican press office is changing the frequency of the pope’s health updates
Equality Texas

Remembering Sylvester Turner - Today, we mourn the sudden loss of Congressman Sylvester Turner. A lifelong Houstonian and dedicated public servant, Turner was a member of the Texas Hous...
The Mind Unleashed

Tesla Shares Fall After Massive Drop In Sales - Tesla’s stock value has taken a significant hit, dropping over 9% following a sharp decline in sales across the UK and European Union in January. This down...
The Reality-Based Community

Nhận định soi kèo Erzurumspor vs Pendikspor lúc 17h30 ngày 06/3/2025 - Tiếp tục với giải Hạng Nhì Thổ Nhĩ Kỳ, khi bước vào vòng 28, người hâm mộ sẽ được chứng kiến một trong những trận đấu hấp dẫn diễn ra giữa Erzurumspor và...
CPI's Danger in the Air

Public Integrity’s “40 Acres and a Lie” project is honored by the Philip Meyer Journalism Awards - [image: A collage illustration that pairs pictures of William T. Sherman with Trinity Church in Edisto, South Carolina. Overlaying Sherman is a snippet of ...
Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center

Anti-Immigrant Group FAIR Taps Controversial Former Sheriff to Serve in Adviser Role - A law enforcement figure associated with the extremist “constitutional sheriff” ideology will serve as an adviser for the anti-immigrant hate group Federat...
New Progressive Alliance

2024 Annual Report - *2024 Annual Report* - Publishing in social media means publishing a reference in Facebook at Colorado Best Democracy, Greens Discuss the Issues, L...
Texas Watch

In the News: Insurance Crisis Hurting Texans - We have been updating you throughout the year on the insurance crisis gripping our state and our nation. Insurance companies have *hiked our rates beyon...
BEYONDbones

Winter Solstice | Final Sky Happenings of 2024 - Editor’s Note: Look to the sky as HMNS Astronomer talks winter solstice for the final sky happenings of 2024. Thank you for watching the stars alongside ...
Border/Lines

The immigration 'vibe shift'—11-19-24 - Immigration news, in context.
Robert Reich

How We Take Back the Supreme CourtWhere do you see yourself in... - *How We Take Back the Supreme Court* Where do you see yourself in 2060? What about your kids or grandkids? Will Donald Trump be affecting your life even ...
Grits for Breakfast

Grits publishes "Tulia" zine for 25th anniversary: Preorder now! - Until Jeff Frazier and the good folks at Mano Amiga in San Marcos reached out about their event Monday night, I had not realized it was the 25th anniversar...
Right Wing Watch

Right Wing Round-Up: One Really Violent Day - Marshall Cohen and Daniel Dale @ CNN: Fact check: 12 election lies Trump is using to set the stage to dispute a potential 2024 defeat Former President Do...
Dos Centavos

Ay Te Watcho, Houston - Well, if you’re reading this on this Labor Day, these words are being typed from Northern Colorado. After 26 years of living in Houston and 53 in Texas, it...
Morning Consult

Replicating Experimental Findings with Online Panels - The post Replicating Experimental Findings with Online Panels appeared first on Morning Consult.
TXElects

Consistency in Texas: Trump Maintains Lead Over Biden in Latest Polls - *By Jeff Blaylock – Founder & Senior Editor* *JUNE. 20, 2024* Stop me if you’ve heard this before. Former President Trump leads President Biden by 7 po...
CT's short stories and novelettes

Grape - “I can jump a ship there. Just get me in the city limits. I will take it from there.” “How many sapiens did you kill?” “Five. Why do you want to know?”...
The Intercept

In No Labels Call, Josh Gottheimer, Mike Lawler, and University Trustees Agree: FBI Should Investigate Campus Protests - The bipartisan duo also praised schools that brought in police to violently quell protests and connected the demonstrations to the TikTok ban. The post I...
The Stars Hollow Gazette

NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament 2024: Second Four Play Ins - This s the second night of the women’s Play-Ins.Here are last night’s winners and losers: Time Network Seed School Record Region Score Seed School Record R...
Texas Environmental News

How US Air Pollution, Ironically, Has Kept Climate Hazards in Check - The past half-century has seen remarkable improvements in air quality in many parts of the world, thanks largely to legislation [...] The post How US Air...
Shadowproof

Shadowproof Is Shutting Down - After eight years, we have decided that it is time to shut down Shadowproof, but that does not mean that the independent journalism that we fostered is c...
One People's Project

2023 Year End Campaign! - The time has come to ask for your help as we head along into what promises to be one busy 2024! 2023 Year End Campaign
Innocence Project

Perry Lott is Exonerated After 35 Years of Wrongful Conviction in Ada, Oklahoma - The post Perry Lott is Exonerated After 35 Years of Wrongful Conviction in Ada, Oklahoma appeared first on Innocence Project.
Latino Rebels

Neuro-Inclusivity, Belonging and Radical Hospitality - Latino Rebels Radio goes on the road for a live podcast recording at Mitchell College in New London, Connecticut. Host Julio Ricardo Varela welcomes seve...
FiveThirtyEight.com

What Americans Think Of The Biden Impeachment Inquiry - Welcome to Pollapalooza, our weekly-ish polling roundup. It’s officially impeachment season again. On Tuesday, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy announc...
Tribune of the People

Tribune of the People was the news organ of a political cult called the “CR-CPUSA” and collapsed in March 2022 - Read about what happened here: https://maoistcultexposed.wordpress.com/ This website belonged to a political cult called the “Committee to Reconstitute the...
Caitlin Johnstone

CaitlinJohnstone.com Is Now At CaitlinJohnstone.com.au - Hello subscribers, As you may have noticed, our website at caitlinjohnstone.com has been reduced to a shuffle lately, suffering repeated 502 errors for rea...
So Far From Heaven (Jack Purcell, RIP)

Draw an Ask Old Jules card on YouTube - Hello everyone, I decided to upload videos of drawing one card at a time on YouTube. This will happen three times a week. If you want to go over and look, ...
Lawfare

UN Special Rapporteur Releases Guantánamo Report - On June 26, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Counter-Terrorism Fionnuala Ní Aoláin released her report following a technical visit ...
In These Times

How Israeli Spyware Endangers Activists Across the Globe - Israeli surveillance technology is empowering antidemocratic governments to track journalists and human rights activists. Regulation is virtually nonexistent.
News Junkie

Mayotte Crisis: Putrid Leftover of France’s Imperialist and Colonialist Scrooge? - The cycle of empires It is not as if President Macron and his administration needed a new crisis to add to the turmoil of his second term in power. Unlike ...
DBC Green

Happy Art Car, Y'All! - (function(jQuery) {function init() { window.wSlideshow && window.wSlideshow.render({elementID:"840112064306859282",nav:"thumbnails",navLocation:"bottom",cap...
Buzzflash

Rebecca Solnit: "Forget Geoengineering. We Need To Stop Burning Fossil Fuels. Right Now." - The Guardian
Living Blue in Texas

TEXIT: The Conservative Movement To Turn Texas Into A White Ethnostate - Unpacking “Texit” and the potential consequences of secession. A few years ago, we wrote “QAnon Conspiracies And Neo-Confederate Beliefs Behind Texit Movem...
Eclectablog

Making democracy work for our environment – wsg Nayyirah Shariff & Sean McBrearty - Nayyirah Shariff on Twitter: @NayyirahShariff Flint Rising on Twitter: @FlintRising Flint Rising's website: FlintRising.com Sean McBrearty on Twitter: @Sea...
Echidne of the Snakes

Happy 2023 To All Of You - I have often come back here to try to write some sort of a conclusion to the years of activity on this site, but have not figured out what, exactly, to s...
VICE

Three UFOs Shot Down by US Weren't Chinese Spy Balloons: Biden - However, President Joe Biden did not say what the three objects were, saying the military is still searching for the debris.
Texas Moratorium Network

Senator Sarah Eckhardt Files Bill to Abolish Death Penalty - A State Senator we wrote asking to file a bill to abolish the death penalty has filed a bill to abolish the death penalty. So, we have a senate sponsor o...
Media Myth Alert

Taking stock: Top mythbusting posts of 2022 - Media Myth Alert directed attention periodically in 2022 to the appearance of well-known media-driven myths, those prominent tales about the news media tha...
Due Dissidence

Liz Truss Finally Made Neoliberalism Toxic - by Jack Carolan Liz Truss spent her childhood accompanying her father, a leftist University professor, on marches against the Thatcher government. It might...
Duffel Blog

Make-A-Wish kid gets 'Day 1 recycled' at Ranger school - “Rules are rules,” said a Ranger Instructor.
Strategic Culture Foundation

WHO Chief, TPLF Leader Tedros Silent About His Party’s Theft of World Food Program Fuel - UN World Health Organization chief Dr. Tedros Adhanom is also the world’s most prominent advocate of the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front. He has said no...
BillMoyers.com

PODCAST: Dr. Bandy Lee Saw It Coming – The Violence Foretold in Donald Trump’s Election - Our democracy has been eroding in tandem with the rise in inequality, says Dr. Lee. The Trump presidency is not really about Donald Trump the individual....
Downwinders at Risk

With Historic Rebuke, EPA Sends GAF Permit Back to Austin…and a Message to Company - When Janie Cisneros and her Singleton United contingent met with EPA Region Six Director Dr. Earthea Nance and her staff on June 1, one of the residents’ g...
Chicken Fried Politics

Symbolic solution in search of an actual problem - Support of 9 Southern Republicans for Respect for Marriage Act shows why Supreme Court isn’t about to ban same-sex marriage ♦By Rich Shumate, ChickenFriedP...
Pages of Victory

The Road to Hell -
The Contributor

34 Senate Republicans oppose even debating gun safety compromise bill - News Image: Every Democrat and 14 Republicans in the Senate voted to consider bipartisan compromise gun safety legislation. Category: Guns in America ori...
Bayou Brief

Tilly Snyder Is Missing Again - Wikipedia’s decision to permanently delete John K. Snyder’s page cannot erase the true story of one of the most eccentric politicians in Louisiana history ...
Washington Babylon

Sub to Our Stack! - [image: Sub to Our Stack!] Hey! We’re back! It’s been a while but *Washington Babylon* is back up and running. Read more @ Washington Babylon...
Talking Points Memo

Scott Pruitt, Yes That Scott Pruitt, Is Running For Senate - Nearly four years after he resigned from the Trump administration amid a cloud of scandal and profligate spending of taxpayer...
Liberal America

Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine and Republicans’ Identity Crisis - This week, Russian president Vladimir Putin ordered his long-anticipated, unprovoked invasion of Ukraine. No sooner did this happen than Donald Trump–the...
Popehat

Customer Agent Rendering - A customer representative or perhaps buyer broker is the strategy of a brokerage or property broker symbolizing a client in an financial commitment transac...
epic.org

EPIC, Coalition Urge FTC to Issue Rules Protecting Consumers Against Data Abuse and Discrimination - Today, EPIC and a coalition of 44 consumer advocacy, civil rights, and media democracy groups urged the Federal Trade Commission to initiate a rulemaking t...
Truthdig

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Malady

Capital’s profitability now depends on ‘lockdowns’, acute social enclosure, and ‘medical’ tyranny - * *This essay was originally posted in April 2021 (and regularly updated) on Medium.com but was censored in September and then put “under investigation”. H...
Freethought Now

FFRF’s Freethought Now Blog has moved! - FFRF has moved our blog, Freethought Now! Check out our new blog today.
Louis Proyect

The Future of this Blog - Update: this site has now returned to its free version at https://louisproyect.wordpress.com … i do not know how much longer https://louisproyect.org will ...
INSIDER - politics news

TikTok extremism exposed: over 1,000 videos found including Holocaust denial, white supremacy, and ISIS propaganda, according to new report - [image: TikTok] Summary List Placement New research released by a counter-extremism think tank found that over 1,000 TikToks featuring hate speech and e...
Houston Press

Simone Biles Also Withdraws From Individual All-Around in a Post-Karolyi Era - After her shocking withdrawal from the U.S. women’s gymnastics team finals on Tuesday due to mental health concerns, Houston’s own Simone Biles has now—per...
Dallas Observer

'Viruses Are Going to Virus': COVID-19 Infections Rise Among Vaccinated Texans - Several fully vaccinated Texas Democratic lawmakers have tested positive for COVID-19, becoming some of the most widely publicized instances of so-called "...
Progressives Everywhere

Ohio’s Gerrymandered Theocracy Exhibit the Stakes of Voting Rights - Inaction of voting rights will be very deadly
Anti-Media

Peer-Reviewed and Published: Adoption of Ivermectin to Combat COVID-19 is Justified - The study's authors conclude that "large reductions in COVID-19 deaths are possible using ivermectin."
Bad Attitudes

Big Government Handouts - Recently, Elon Musk beat out Jeff Bezos for a 2.9 billion contract from NASA to fly one of his magnificent exploding rocket ships to the moon. In true Am...
PBD - Progressive Blog Digest

46 - Joe Biden, the president of the United States. Not a perfect president, but the perfect president for these post-Trump times. Earnest, unpretentious, good-...
Latino Decisions

Alex Padilla, Latino Champion of Voter Access, New California US Senator - In a historic event, California Secretary of State Alex Padilla has been appointed as United States Senator by Governor Gavin Newsom. Secretary Padilla...
TomDispatch

Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, The Madness of War, American-Style - In choosing a title for his final, posthumously published book, the prominent public intellectual Tony Judt turned to a poem by Oliver Goldsmith, *The De...
Art Killing Apathy

Free Speech Is More Complicated Than You Think - By Eleanor Goldfield The truth is – words are dangerous. Words are the catalysts of all action – good or evil. To start with a cliché but solid example: ...
Defend our Movements

Assessing Tech: How We Know If It’s On Our Side - By Bex Hong Hurwitz, Tiny Gigantic Over the past months, technical research into privacy and security concerns with Zoom and Zoom’s actions in response hav...
Better Texas Blog

New Census Data Confirms Texas Needs to Equitably Invest in Anti-Poverty Programs - Looking for analysis of the new health insurance numbers released this week? Check out our blog here! Although median income and poverty rates improved ...
Texas Rural Voices

“IT’s” the RACISM, STUPID! - It is at the center of our national attention. And, justifiably so. It’s presence permeates our national psyche, whether we acknowledge it or not. We...
PERRspectives

On the Ground Update: Acting DHS Secretary Wolf Understates Portland Crisis - Over the past 24 hours, Acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf has faced a firestorm of criticism for his over-the-top rhetoric and gra...
Austin 360

Neuron Garage - Neuron Garage Camp Expands to 12 Locations for Summer 2020! Austin-based day camp, Neuron Garage, is quickly gaining a loyal following as the Hands-On Bu...
Think 3 Institute

What is it about Trump? - *P*art of it is this: millions of people who'd never want Donald Trump to be their boss now feel that he has become, or is becoming, exactly that. Somethin...
IVN

Long Live the Crackpots! - Long Live the Crackpots! Those of us who had been part of and partners with the Perot rebellion knew that the official “branding” of Ross Perot was alrea...
Modern Democracy

Roberts’ Next Thicket?: The Coming One-Person, One-Vote Battle Over “How Much is Too Much” - Recently, Nick Stephanopoulos pointed out how Rucho was written as if constitutional racial vote dilution claims never existed. The same might also be said...
The Metaphor Project

Say: “Move America Forward?” - In the first Democratic presidential debate, Andrew Yang proposed a slogan, “Not left, not right, forward!” The next day I corrected it on Twitter to be “...
Truthout

Despite Shutdown, Trump Is Pushing Forward Plans to Drill in Arctic - With Trump, oil drilling takes priority over essential services like trash pickup in national parks.
Splinter

Someone threatened to set a University of Michigan student on fire for wearing a hijab. This must stop. - Steps away from the University of Michigan campus in Ann Arbor, a stranger approached a student and threatened to set her on fire with a lighter, police ...

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